Billy is fourteen years old and in the ninth grade. He has a  26  job which gets him  27  at five o’clock every morning. He is a  28 .
Each morning, Billy leaves the house at 5: l5 to go to the corner  29 the newspapers are. The newspapers are delivered to the  30 by truck at midnight. He always takes a wagon (手推车) to carry them.
In  31 , it is still dark and cold when he gets up, but during the rest of the year it is bright and warm. Billy must deliver the newspapers to the houses of people on his route (线路) in all kinds of weather. He tries to put each  32 on the porch (门廊) where it will be protected from    33 , rain or snow. His 34  think he does a good job. Sometimes they give him  35 .
Billy  36 about $70 per month, and he is saving some of the money to go to college. He spends the rest  37 records and clothes. Once a month, he has to  38  money from his customers. Since many of them  39 during the day, Billy has to collect the money  40 . Sometimes, when Billy is   41 , his older brother has to  42 the newspapers. Once Billy’s father had to help as well.
Billy has seventy customers now,  43  he hopes to get more soon. Some day, if he gets many more customers, Billy might win a prize for being an outstanding(杰出的) newspaper boy. He wants to win a  44 to Europe, but he will also be happy  45 he wins a new bicycle.

 Billy is fourteen years old and in the ninth grade. He has a  36  job which gets him  37  at five o'clock every morning. He is a  38  .

Each morning, Billy leaves the house at 5: l5 to go to the corner  39  the newspapers are. The newspapers are delivered （递）to the  40  by truck at midnight. He always takes a wagon (手推车) to carry them.

In  41  , it is still dark and cold when he gets up, but during the rest of the year it is bright and warm. Billy must deliver the newspapers to the houses of people on his route (线路) in all kinds of weather. He tries to put each  42  on the porch (门廊) where it will be protected from  43  , rain or snow. His  44   think he does a good job. Sometimes they give him  45  .

Billy  46  about $70 per month, and he is saving some of the money to go to college. He spends the rest  47  records and clothes. Once a month, he has to  48  money from his customers. Since many of them  49  during the day, Billy has to collect the money  50  . Sometimes, when Billy is   51  , his older brother has to  52  the newspapers. Once  Billy's father had to help as well.

Billy has seventy customers now,  53  he hopes to get more soon. Some day, if he gets many more customers, Billy might win a prize for being an outstanding(杰出的) newspaper boy. He wants to win a  54  to Europe, but he will also be happy  55  he wins a new bicycle.

　　Billy is fourteen years old and in the ninth grade. He has a 1 job which gets him 2 every morning at five o'clock. He is a 3 .

　　Each morning, Billy 4 the house at 5:15 to go to the corner 5 the newspapers are. The newspapers were delivered to the 6 by truck at midnight. He always takes a wagon to carry them.

　　In the 7 it is still dark when he gets up, but during the rest of the year it is 8 . Billy must deliver the newspapers to the houses of people on his route 9 all kinds of weather. He tries to put each 10 on the porch (门廊) where “will be protected from 11 and rain or snow. His 12 think he does a good job. Sometimes they give him 13 .

　　Billy 14 about $70 per month, and he is 15 some of the money to go to college. He spends the rest 16 records and clothes. Once a month, he has to 17 money from his customers. Since many of them 18 during the day, Billy has to collect the money 19 . Sometimes, when Billy is 20 his elder brother has to 21 the newspapers. Once Billy's father had to help.

　　Billy has seventy customers now, 22 he hopes to get more soon. Some day, if he gets 23 more customers, Billy might win a prize for being an out standing newspaper boy. He wants to win a 24 to Europe, but he will also be happy 25 he wins a new bicycle.

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

There are many kinds of friends. Some are always ___1___you, but don't understand you. Some say only a few words to you, but understand you. Many people will step in your life, but only ___2___friends leave footprints (脚印).

　　I shall always recall (回忆) the autumn and the girl with the ___3___ . She will always bring back the friendship between us. I know she will always be my best friend.

　　It was the golden season. I could see the yellow leaves ___4___  on the cool ___5___. In such a season, I liked walking alone in the leaves, ____6__ to the sound of them.

　　Autumn is a __7____ season and life is uninteresting. The free days always get me ___8___ . But one day, the sound of a violin  __9____into my ears like a stream (小溪) flowing in the mountains. I was so surprised that I jumped to see what it was. A young girl, standing in the wind, was__10____ in playing her violin.

　　I had __11____ seen her before. The music was so nice that I listened quietly. Lost in the music, I didn't know that I had been ___12___ there for so long but my existence (存在) did not seem to disturb her.

　　Leaves were still falling. Every day she played the violin in the corner of the building  ___13___ I went downstairs to watch her performance. I was the only listener. The autumn seemed no longer lonely and life became ___14___.  __15____ we didn't know each other, I thought we were already good friends. I believe she also loved me.

　　Autumn was nearly over. One day, when I was listening carefully, the sound suddenly ___16___. To my astonishment (惊讶), the girl came over to me.

　　“You must like violin.” she said.

　　“Yes. And you play very well. Why did you stop?” I asked.

　　Suddenly, a __17____ expression appeared on her face and I could feel something unusual.

　　“I came here to see my grandmother, but now I must leave. I once played very badly. It was your listening every day that _18_____ me.” she said.

　　“In fact, it was your playing _19_____ gave me a meaningful autumn,” I answered, “Let's be friends.”

　　The girl smiled, and so did I.

　　I never heard her play again in my life. I no longer went downstairs to listen like before. Only thick leaves were left behind. But I will always remember the fine figure (身影) of the girl. She is like a __20____—so short, so bright, like a shooting star giving off so much light that it makes the autumn beautiful.

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